Word: tails
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...decent money, but when he came home for a visit, he learned his son had died. Unwilling to leave his family again, he turned to the unpredictable fishing trade. His dark skin and curly hair dusted with salt from his last trip out to sea, holding the dried stingray tail he uses like sandpaper on the boat's many rough edges, he tells me that the youngest of his three children is only two years old, "so it seems I will work for the rest of my life...
...Dear Hawthornius,” Longfellow wrote, “not the comet himself can unfold a more glorious tail...
...cedar-and-pine piece, Plenty's Boast, 1994-95. As the title suggests, it could be a cornucopia. But it also evokes a slew of other things: the flaring mouth suggests an old gramophone horn, or perhaps a flower, or a weird sucking worm; the "tail" has a distinctly sinister look, as though it carried a sting, while the fitting and fairing of the wooden staves of which it is made are impeccable...
...next chapter in the Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier feud but was actually a fight between two women who are very bad at boxing. True, both fighters came in undefeated: Ali had crushed 48-year-old grandmother Marjorie Jones; Frazier-Lyde had whupped a 19-year-old who turned tail when she saw Frazier charging. The fighters exchanged violent blows, but the night's big thrill came when Smokin' Joe arrived to give his defeated daughter a hug. Muhammad Ali had a previous commitment to attend something classier--a NASCAR event...
Another firm raking in cash from the tech downturn is Overstock.com based in Salt Lake City, Utah. Overstock is the world's first purely e-tail site to break even, a feat achieved after burning through just $27 million in venture capital--pocket change in Silicon Valley. Overstock, which buys surplus tech products at liquidation prices and sells them to consumers at an average 60% off the retail price, is best known as a "vulture" site, raking over the bones of deceased dotcoms and snapping up $44 million of their equipment...